Sydney Mike-Mayer is a Master of Public Affairs candidate at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, specializing in public financial management. She is a Government Finance Rotational Fellow with the Center for Municipal Capital Markets, a program that places graduate fellows in public finance roles across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. At the LBJ Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, she has conducted research on prison oversight and environmental issues affecting United States correctional institutions, including work that surfaced critical water infrastructure issues within the nation’s prisons and jails. She previously served as a Researcher and Writer for the Texas House of Representatives, where she led the House Research Organization’s Environmental Regulation and Natural Resources Committees during the 89th Legislative Session. Sydney is eager to bring her research skills to bear on such a salient issue as water policy. She holds a B.A. in Government from The University of Texas at Austin, where she participated in the J.J. Pickle Undergraduate Research Fellowship, a research program in American institutions and public policy.
